[kde-freebsd] Problems with kde4

[Kemian Dang]

Ernst W. Winter wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Dwayne MacKinnon wrote:
>
>   
>> Well, 
>>
>> Wanting to contribute, I followed directions and compiled up a basic kde4 on 
>> my system at home. I'm running i386 7.0-RELEASE-p1 on an Athlon X2 5200+ 
>> system. 
>>
>> After a few hiccups (boost-python conflicting with boost, the redmond 
>> business) everything seemed to install ok. I first built qt4, then kdebase4, 
>> and finally the kde4 meta-port.
>>
>> The problem is that I can't get a desktop running. It will slowly work its way 
>> through the splash screen start-up stuff, but then I'm stuck looking at a 
>> blank screen with a mouse cursor.
>>
>> I started kde4 with startx and a .xinitrc that 
>> had /usr/local/kde4/bin/startkde in it.
>>
>>     
> same here and black screen and all, had a couple times that I had
> a desktop, but crashed when using setup to get some
> configurations done. :-)
>
>   
>> Attached are some text files that I hope will prove useful. The problem seems 
>> to be that virtually everything crashes, starting with kded.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dwayne MacKinnon
>>     
>
> Ernst
>
>
>   
Same to me, the command line terminal said "can not get reply from 
DBus", while I have started dbus already.

But it is OK the first time I run it, though without background picture. 
It died when I was testing the desk effect, and restart make things only 
black screen.

Anyway, the splash window is beautiful.

Best wishes,
Kemian